Howard Stern, Show Listeners Call Staffer Racist 4 Linking BTS & Coronaviru

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Howard Stern brought up growing concern over the deadly coronavirus with his cast of comedic cohorts. The topic turned to BTS when staff member Salvatore “Sal” Governale was called out for claiming the Korean-pop group and their staff were carrying the virus after spotting them during their visit to SiriusXM’s New York headquarters on Friday, Feb. 21.

“BTS is from Korea and Sal was freaking out,” Stern explained to his millions of faithful listeners. “BTS was here at Sirius on Friday and Sal was saying, ‘There’s no way those guys don’t have the coronavirus.’ He was like every asshole.”

Stern then pointed out that BTS are Korean (not from China where the current outbreak was first identified) and co-host Robin Quivers weighed in with her view: that BTS and their team “are touring all the time” (in fact, the band had been splitting time between the U.S. and Korea this past month) and producer Gary Dell’Abate noted that “every celebrity who walks through the [SiriusXM] door is traveling all over the world — not just Asians.” 

But Governale, doubled down on his comments. “I walked into the lobby and it was like Chinatown, out of control, there were so many Asian people,” he said on the air. “These people are traveling, they’re not locals, they’re going from country to country to country. It’s a dangerous situation. You got to look at it that way — they’re on airplanes; they’re in hotels.”

The radio personality told Governale, “I got so many emails about what an idiot you are for avoiding a Korean boy band.” One commenter labeled Governale, as well as fellow “Stern Show” staffer Ronnie Mund who made comments about avoiding Chinese food, as “f–ing old, racist pieces of s–t,” as well as “misinformed.”

Stern even chimed in to say, “I’m super paranoid about diseases and germs, but you came off as racist.” 
 

https://variety.com/2020/music/news/bts-coronavirus-howard-stern-show-1203516055/

[Daylight Jokers 14,958]

Disgusting. 

[Gagaloo911 12,959]

Gross. 

That staffer sounds like some certain members on GGD 

[Guest]

This is the least racist thing ive heard on that show

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15 minutes ago, Gagaloo92 said:

Gross. 

That staffer sounds like some certain members on GGD 

 

3 minutes ago, Faysalaaa said:

This is the least racist thing ive heard on that show

Welp

[Rudz Xinc 7,929]

What a moron

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Blue Lagoon said:

“every celebrity who walks through the [SiriusXM] door is traveling all over the world — not just Asians.” 

Exactly. Smh

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The shows humor is meant to be offensive and stupid. Glad it’s still going even with how super sensitive our culture has become in 2020

[Guest]

56 minutes ago, Blue Lagoon said:

 

Welp

Im saying that the show has too much racism, this sounds nothing compared to what they say. Im not saying this is okay. 

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